04-22-2002, 12:21 AM
No, not the stuff you get in cans today, but older stuff that even today's doctors dont' seem to know about. Being I think a pine sap derivative, it is probably somewhat akin to maple sap, and the reason I bring it up is a story about my grandmother on the Oklahoma frontier.<br>
Seems around late 1920's the way to win elections, which was between Democratic candidate with my grandfather controlling the swing Republican vote, was with whiskey. Now Democrats would get the local folks and the Native Americans likkered up, and what with knives and all being common, usually folks got cut up (no pugios though). My grandmother once had a Cherokee come in with his back slashed to the ribs top to bottom. The story goes she got a bottle of turpentine out, and poured it over the wound, then got her needle and thread and sewed the guy up. Turned out none the worse for it. By the drop in sugar it also cured croup, but that's another story. No infection and apparently very little scarring.<br>
Now, did the Romans know to boil sap down? Lots of pine trees in Italy. Army pharmaceuticals would be a great study, particularly since so much is known about their surgical instruments.<br>
That turpentine was a folk remedy but was sold through pharmacies, my relatives recall. <p>Richard Campbell, Legio XX.
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Seems around late 1920's the way to win elections, which was between Democratic candidate with my grandfather controlling the swing Republican vote, was with whiskey. Now Democrats would get the local folks and the Native Americans likkered up, and what with knives and all being common, usually folks got cut up (no pugios though). My grandmother once had a Cherokee come in with his back slashed to the ribs top to bottom. The story goes she got a bottle of turpentine out, and poured it over the wound, then got her needle and thread and sewed the guy up. Turned out none the worse for it. By the drop in sugar it also cured croup, but that's another story. No infection and apparently very little scarring.<br>
Now, did the Romans know to boil sap down? Lots of pine trees in Italy. Army pharmaceuticals would be a great study, particularly since so much is known about their surgical instruments.<br>
That turpentine was a folk remedy but was sold through pharmacies, my relatives recall. <p>Richard Campbell, Legio XX.
http://www.geocities.com/richsc53/studies/
ICQ 940236
</p><i></i>
Richard Campbell
Legio XX - Alexandria, Virginia
RAT member #6?
Legio XX - Alexandria, Virginia
RAT member #6?
